The Science of Success and The Wisdom of Mobs

Interesting look at the notion of a scientific process to business success, as espoused by a popular book of the same name. It’s worth reading the review if you are interested, as I am right now, about how to better manage people, however there is a concluding paragraph that captured some wisdom we all need […]

Shai Agassi Resigns - WOW

Wow is all I can say, didn’t see that one coming at all. In fact, given Shai’s position and the perks that it afforded I figured he would stay even though Leo would ultimately get the CEO position. Speaking of Leo, what the hell is “Deputy CEO“? Has anyone ever heard of such a title? […]

It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear

This should be required reading for every CEO in the technology industry.

“Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear” (Frank Luntz)I read about it in BusinessWeek:

Can pollster and spinmeister Frank Luntz get Corporate America to forgo bizspeak? “If you’re eBay (EBAY ) CEO Meg Whitman, why must you say that you’re […]

SMB Infrastructure

One of the great things about starting a new business today is that much of the infrastructure you need to get off the ground is available as a monthly service. At Teqlo we control our costs by leveraging this as much as possible, in fact outside of payroll our single biggest expense is a T1 […]

Management Series : Grab a New Ball

Yesterday I had the great pleasure of playing a round of golf at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, an annual tradition that is usually blessed by fantastic coastal sunshine but this year was dampened, literally, by a thick fog and heavy mist (or as I called it, pre-sun) conditions.

In stepping up to […]

Off to Ireland for a couple of days

I’m outbound to Ireland today to speak at the IT@Cork event, my topic is pricing trends. I am looking forward to meeting Tom Raftery in person, having up until know just talked via email or phone with him.

That I am speaking on pricing trends is somewhat interesting if for no other reason than this is […]

Management Consultants

Read the whole post, he pretty much nails it…

Joel on Software:

The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. The best part is that most management consultants, the stunningly good-looking, bright, earnest chipmunks with 4.0s in Russian Lit from Harvard who work for these companies, have absolutely […]

Management Series : Taking Responsibility

The world certainly doesn’t need another top 10 list that pontificates on the rules for leadership in business, besides I think Kawasaki has the “Top 10″ concept trademarked by now. Nonetheless, when you take a leadership role in a company you are forced to think about what kind of style and traits you want to […]

Culture Clash

Dennis Howlett’s post titled Feeling the Fear and Doing it Anyway and David Tebbutt’s Jerry Bowles’ (sorry Jerry!) post titled Top 10 Management Fears about Enterprise 2.0 made me think of a couple of things in order to put context around them. For several months we have, as a sideshow to the larger enterprise technology […]

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